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Marriage on Trial
Ludwig Schmugge
Catholic University of America Press, 2012
This work vividly describes many of the individual cases and offers new insight into the social and legal pressures on marriage in the Middle Ages.
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The Theology of Marriage
Cormac Burke
Catholic University of America Press, 2015
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What Brings a Marriage into Existence?
An Historical Re-examination of the Canon Law of the Latin Church
Brendan Killeen
University of Scranton Press, 2010

Of the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, matrimony is the most discussed, debated, disputed, and adjudicated in all of canon law. In this book, Brendan Killeen employs the fundamental question “What brings a marriage into existence?” as the legal and scholarly means to explore the very nature of marriage within the framework of the canon law of the Catholic Church.

            Killeen conducts his exploration in two phases. First he scrutinizes the canon law’s primary sources—texts dating as far back as the Roman Empire—and gives readers a fresh perspective of the law’s historical progression. He then examines the papers from the Second Vatican Council and offers both an objective evaluation of the law at present and some possible amendments for its future.

            Noteworthy for its diligent research and in-depth analysis, What Brings a Marriage into Existence? will be useful to both newcomers to the canon law of marriage as well as seasoned scholars.

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